In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the state could be subject to a judgment believed to be worse than death: damnatio memoriae , condemnation of memory. The Senate would decree that every trace of the citizen’s existence be removed from the city as if they had never existed in the first place. Once reserved for individuals, damnatio memoriae in different forms now extends to social classes, racial and ethnic groups, and even entire peoples. In modern times, the condemned go by different names―“enemies of the people;” the “missing,” the “disappeared,” “ghost” detainees in “black sites”―but they are subject to the same fate of political erasure.
Arthur Bradley explores the power to render life unlived from ancient Rome through the War on Terror. He argues that sovereignty is the power to decide what counts as being alive and what does not: to make life “unbearable,” unrecognized as having lived or died. In readings of Augustine, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Robespierre, Schmitt, and Benjamin, Bradley asks: What is the “life” of this unbearable life? How does it change and endure across sovereign time and space, from empires to republics, from kings to presidents? To what extent can it be resisted or lived otherwise? A profoundly interdisciplinary and ambitious work, Unbearable Life rethinks sovereignty, biopolitics, and political theology to find the radical potential of a life that neither lives or dies.

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Unbearable life : a henealogy of political erasure

Bradley, Arthur;

Columbia Business School Publishing

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Table of Contents 8
Acknowledgments 10
Introduction 16
1. Unbearable: Foucault and the Birth of Nihilopolitics 36
2. Ungood: Augustine’s City of Cacus 60
3. Untimely Ripped: Macbeth’s Children 86
4. Uncommon: Hobbes’s Martyrs 110
5. Incorruptible: Robespierre and the Already Dead 134
6. Unleashed: Schmitt and the Katechon 156
7. Undead: Benjamin and the Past to Come 178
Conclusion 204
Notes 212
Bibliography 252
Index 270

2021-08-09